Garden tiger moth

id: garden-tiger-moth-238-8688213
title: Garden tiger moth
text: The garden tiger moth or great tiger moth is a moth of the family Erebidae. Arctia caja is a northern species found in the US, Canada, and Europe. The moth prefers cold climates with temperate seasonality, as the larvae overwinter, and preferentially chooses host plants that produce pyrrolizidine alkaloids. However, garden tiger moths are generalists, and will pick many different plants to use as larval host plants. The conspicuous patterns on its wings serve as a warning to predators because th
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description: Species of moth
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_tiger_moth
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date modified: 2024-01-13T18:18:08Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Arctia_caja_%28Marek_Szczepanek%29.jpg","width":357,"height":550}
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